The Young Australian Skeptics is an organisation and group blog run by a diverse team of young science communicators, professionals and students, focused on the crossroads of science with critical thinking, religion, education, politics, medicine, law, wider society and more — in essence, scientific skepticism and its cultural impact.

Jack, Rachael and Tom step into the offices of the Foundation for Young Australians and talk about the stereo-​​noses of moles, how genes can travel faster than stories (or how sex is better than talking), and how screwed we’re all going to be in the event of a global collapse of civilisation. Jargonauts gets off balance with “homeostasis”, and we make the choice between exploring space or the ocean, with your help. Next week’s question: “Would you rather wipe out every other human on Earth (besides yourself), or wipe out the near-​​total majority of the biodiversity of the planet?”

Regarding The Matrix, I have heard stories that they original plot was that the machines were using the denizens of the Matrix as processors, but some studio types vetoed that as something that people wouldn’t understand, thus the power generation version was written.